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Thanks so much for writing this. I am now a woman in my 50s with a pretty good relationship with food. I was raised by a mother with an eating disorder and I have always tried my best to talk positively about food and bodies around my daughters. As a teenager I read diet books and I knew the calories to all foods - I can still quote them now!

My family were obsessed with diets and weightloss, I never felt good enough because I was never skinny.

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Did ever have that feeling of gaining energy when being on a diet? That is the best thing to get out of dieting. It is No game whatsoever, always the same effect when you take in less.

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Thanks so much for the shout out Ellen ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

Absolutely loved this and it really rings true - thereโ€™s not a woman I know who doesnโ€™t have (or has had) issues with body image and food at some point in their life. It takes a life time of unlearning these messages that are fed (ha) to us since childhood.

That said, the stories of scandal from Dunston Slimming World are some of the best Iโ€™ve ever heard - Doreen snitching on Sheila going to KFC, Linda not being allowed to bring her homemade pies in ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ pray for us all

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